Wilhelm Berger String Trio (1898)

[jonah]

If anyone here is interested, there is to be a performance of Wilhelm Berger's String Trio on Saturday 23rd September at East Claydon Church, Bucks as part of the Music in Quiet Places series. Other music in the concert relevant to this forum is a viola/cello duo by Rebecca Clarke.

[Pyramus]

Not many composers wrote string trios - Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Boccherini, Reger and probably others - they must be harder to play than quartets and require maximum projection of sound, even when playing piano.

[eschiss1]

Yes, probably others. IMSLP alone lists over 100-200+ string trios actually titled or subtitled "trio" for violin, viola, cello even allowing for the site's copyright or creative-commons restrictions. Nowhere near as many as string quartets, but not as rare as quartets for four violins, say.

[Double-A]

For the purposes of this forum the most important "other" composer here is Röntgen.  He wrote several clever trios worth playing and listening to.

[eschiss1]

Not to denigrate individual efforts by Fuchs and Reinecke (no relation to Reineke-Fuchs) for example